Vince Hinostroza, F, Waterloo (USHL)
4 games, 3 goals, 2 assists, 5 points
Hinostroza was named to the roster for the U.S. Junior Select Team that will compete in the 2012 World Junior A Challenge in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on November 5-11

Last time around they held a draft lottery which saw the Penguins come out winners drafting Sidney Crosby. The Hawks drafted 7th that year taking Jack Skille; which isn’t so terrible if you look at the rest of the first round. It seems their biggest miss was Anze Kopitar – drafted 11th or Devin Setoguchi – drafted 8th. Anyone else of note was drafted too late in the round to consider it a miss by the Hawks.

On the prospect front, I’m most excited about Danault. I saw him last year at the prospects tournament in Oshawa 3 times and he is something. For whatever reason people see numbers and assume future stardom (ex. B. Saad) and while Danault has good numbers so far this year it’s how noticable he is on the ice that gives me the confidence to say he’ll be a player. The same is true of Shaw; at the tournament he and Danault were clear standouts on the ice, while playes like McNeil and Saad were less so.

Living in Quebec City, I’m looking forward to watch Danault when the Tigers come in to play the Ramparts. I’ll also make the trip to Victoriaville to watch when Danault will be lined up against Nathan MacKinnon (frontrunner for no.1 overall 2013).

To elaborate on what nathen said, it would be a lottery and each team would get a certain number of balls in the lottery based on playoff appearences the last 3 years, and whether or not you have had the #1 pick in the last 3 years. so the breakdown for the #1 pick would be as follows….